Site Purpose: Collect several pictures
of people with different skin coloration and put them all on one
page in MSWord. Discuss with the children the lightness or
darkness and how much melanin is in each ( a lot, a
little?)http://anthro.palomar.edu/adapt/adapt_4.htm
- has pictures to use in the classroom.

Lesson Introduction: Set group size
limits or establish roles at the start of this lesson. List here
any classroom management details that will help this lesson run
smoothly.

What causes our stresses? What makes them
livable? Can we eliminate any of our stress? You will work with a
partner of your choosing. Your task for today will be to use the
lists and resources available to you and come to an agreement on
the three things that most cause you and your partner stress, and
then the three management techniques that you think will be most
helpful to your classmates in dealing with their stress. One of
you should be responsible for the things that cause you to stress,
and the other will be responsible for the ways to deal with
stress. Do not be distracted by other groups working around you on
other topics related to stress. Work in a positive manner with
your partner.

Lesson Description: Give complete
instructions to students regarding how the work is to be done. If
an additional Internet site will be required for the completion of
this lesson, include it in your instructions here.

Set up a journal page and make your guess
about the following: (1) What hour of day is the hottest? (2) What
time of the day is the coldest? After making your guess,
visit
the weather data site and record
the temperature for each of the last 24 hours. Write the numbers
down in your journal before entering them into the spreadsheet. If
you want to copy the data and paste into Excel, you will encounter
several difficulties. To see how to deal with these problems,
download
a sample spreadsheet. You may be
able to look at the numbers you wrote in your journal and see a
pattern. But, if you put your data into Excel and create a column
chart, the pattern will be much easier to find.

Instructions for using Excel to produce
your chart of temperature data

Enter the data into a spreadsheet
Put the times into column 1
Enter the temperatures in column 2, use numbers only, do not try
to enter a degree sign or Fahrenheit.
Highlight the times and temperatures only. Do not use entire
columns or entire rows, just the data you entered.
Select the Chart Wizard button
A column chart is the default choice, so click on the Next button
at the bottom of the window.
At step 2 there is nothing to change, so click on the Next button
at the bottom of the window.
In the chart title section of step 3 enter "24 hours of
temperature data."
Label the X and Y axes as time and temperature, then select the
Next button at the bottom of the window.
On step 4, click in the top circle to place the chart as a new
sheet.
Select the Finish button at the bottom of the window.
Look carefully at your chart. Go back to your journal page and
record the time of the highest temperature and the time of the
lowest temperature. Compare those numbers to your guesses. On your
journal page suggest possible reasons why the hottest and coldest
times of the day happen when they do.

Final Product or Task: Tell students
what they will produce as a final product. If you expect them to
use a specific application or tool spell that out for them. For
example; "You will use an Excel spreadsheet to calculate the speed
with which a line of thunderstorms moved across a given state.
Your results and to be reported with a one-page Word document on
which you have inserted an image from the Internet."

Print your "24 hours of temperature data"
chart. Report the results of your inquiry on a one page MS Word
document which you will turn in with your Excel chart. Your report
must include:
your original guesses about the hottest and coldest time,
the actual hottest and coldest times,
your speculation as to why hottest and coldest times happen when
they do.

Conclusion: Associate this lesson with
work that has gone before, or is to follow. Challenge your
students to go further with this topic. If appropriate, list
another Internet site.

Stresses affect you and I each day--(Only
you know quicker when my stress levels go up.) Use this site to
learn how to control your surroundings and the things that punch
your buttons. Use the associated links to learn more about how
stress affects your total health, and your whole well-being. With
a little effort on your part, you may find that I can become a
bearable person in whose class you can come to learn and enjoy
without the usual stresses that everyday school life is bound to
bring.

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